How to enter a document in mongodb with size larger than 16MB?

[Sahildeep_Kaur]

Hi everyone,
I want to enter a document in mongodb with size larger than 16MB.
I have tried gridfs but it stores the data in binary. Is there any method by which we can store the data larger than 16MB in mongodb in object as I need to update the documents automatically. Thank you!

[steevej (Steeve Juneau)]

@Sahildeep_Kaur

Is there any method by which we can store the data larger than 16MB

None, see https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/reference/limits/.

And thankfully because I feel there are real issue with your schema design if you end up with 16Mb structured documents to store. Media files, I understand, but structured data, I would like to ear about the use cases.

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@Sahildeep_Kaur

I need to update the documents automatically

Every time you will update your 16Mb documents, you will eventually write 16Mb on disk.

Here another link https://www.mongodb.com/docs/ops-manager/current/schema-advisor/reduce-document-size/